Rail travel just got greener

Photo / Paul Estcourt

Bewildered passengers found the platforms unusually green and springy at Britomart Station in Auckland yesterday, after the concrete floor was temporarily transformed into a "meadow".

A milk company spent all night laying 1250sq m of grass - ready to greet the first train of travellers that arrived just after 7am.

The station remained open throughout the day of filming for eight Meadow Fresh commercials.

One train driver spent all day driving in and out of the station amid the actors, buttercups, bushes and grass needed for the advertisements.

Northcote Intermediate students will be next to walk on the grass. It will be laid between new classrooms being built at the school.